We were so excited for this year's Senior Model Call and I'm pumped to share the photographs from our Wild and Free photo shoot. The theme was modern California/desert chic, and we shot the photos at Tifft Nature Preserve in Buffalo, NY. Early spring means no leaves on the trees yet, but the pine trees and long grass made for an interesting backdrop. After our first date was rescheduled due to snow and frigid temps, we were lucky to have gorgeous light and upper 60s in mid April! A huge thank you to Mary O'Sullivan and Gabby Miklos for shooting with me, Kelley Comerford for styling, Kayla Tomasello for hair and make up and of course to all of our beautiful models. These girls have it all - they are all confident, fun to be around, talented and ambitious. It was truly an inspiration to hang out with them and a slight reminder of just how old I now am, even though I still feel like I'm 20! Each day this week, I will be featuring one of our 2017 Grads on the blog so stay tuned!

Such a pretty name! I was extremely honored to take baby Emerson's newborn pictures, especially since her family drove in to Buffalo from Rochester for the session! This gorgeous little girl was up all night for her parents, having a growth spurt. If you've had a newborn, you know how much fun it is to have a baby that wants to feed for 4 hours straight. Luckily, it worked in our favor during her photo session because she was wiped. Even after her nap during the drive, sleeping beauty slept for her entire session. Miss Emerson was so happy to be curled in a ball and wrapped up. No feeding, just snuggled in tightly to anything soft. She was a dream! Her brother, Finn is so great with her. He's already such a little ham and was excited to literally jump into photos with his new sister. These two are the cutest!

Here are a few pics from our wild and crazy spring break! Haha. At this stage, Tommy truly believes he is a superhero and Joey is happy filling buckets and throwing sand. Most of these were taken after dinner at Pincher's Crab Shack on Ft. Myers Beach our last night. Dinner at the beach was so much fun, then we had to figure out how to get these animals home - soaking wet, sand matted in hair and down into diaper (thank you, Joey). Of course I did not bring towels. We hosed the boys (and all their toys) down in the shower and they were ready to wake up early for our flight back to snowy Buffalo the next day. Don't worry about that sand in your car seat, it will come off eventually. Please don't eat it. On another note, this was Tommy's first time jumping and swimming in the pool with no float the whole trip! Whoo-hoo, we were proud parents!